By Heiko Gerstung. We receive an ever increasing number of questions from our customers regarding MiFID 2 and the time synchronzation of RTS 25 and therefore decided to publish the answers here in one place: 1. What is MiFID 2 ? The Directive on markets in financial instruments (MiFID 2) is an European regulation for […]
About Heiko Gerstung
About Heiko Gerstung
Heiko Gerstung is Managing Director of Meinberg and joined the company in 2004 as a software engineer. He has decades of experience with GNU Linux and during his university time touched other Unix flavors like Solaris and AIX. In addition to his common responsibilities as a Managing Director he is responsible for IT security issues, indicating how important […]
Messing with your Radio Time Signal
Last month two Chinese researchers gave a presentation titled “Time is on my Side” during the “Hack in The Box” 2016 SecConf event in Amsterdam, NL (https://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2016ams/) . In this presentation, the researchers outlined a way to attack NTP servers by spoofing AM and GPS radio signals which are used as the time reference by most […]